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gloze

[ glohz ]

verb (used with object)

glozed, glozing.
  1. to explain away; extenuate; gloss over (usually followed by over ).


verb (used without object)

glozed, glozing.
  1. Archaic. to make glosses; comment.

noun

  1. Archaic. flattery or deceit.
  2. Obsolete. a specious show.

gloze

/ ɡəʊ /

verb

  1. troften foll byover to explain away; minimize the effect or importance of
  2. to make explanatory notes or glosses on (a text)
  3. to use flattery (on)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. flattery or deceit
  2. an explanatory note or gloss
  3. specious or deceptive talk or action
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • dziԲ· adverb
  • ܲ·dz adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of gloze1

1250–1300; Middle English < Old French gloser < Medieval Latin Dz; gloss 2
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of gloze1

C13: from Old French glosser to comment; see gloss ²
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For, as of a boiling pot the lid must be set ajar, so with these fleshly wine-pots, to vent the heat of their inward parts: spite of which many die suddenly from drink; but 'tis a matter of religion to slur it, and gloze it, and charge some innocent disease therewith.

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It was natural that a mother should feel this strongly, and in a wrong-headed feminine way make difficulties greater in her efforts to gloze them over.

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These are to assure you, then, that let you pray how you may, or gloze over your base treatment with fine cozening 51Թs and fair Promises, you shall have neither lot nor scot in my Threasure, which is indeed as you surmise hidden away in England, but the Secret whereof I shall impart neither to you nor to no man.

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The prophet is induced to say smooth things, to announce easy principles, to gloze over hard interpretations, to keep out of sight unwelcomed truths; and extraordinary courage is required of those who would resist this tendency to complaisance.

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Doub′le-gild, to gild with double coatings of gold: to gloze over.—n.

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